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International Conference on Halal Industry, Declaration Issue

(Lahore) The two day International Conference on Halal industry in Pakistan has concluded. Among those attending were the ambassador, industrialists and businessmen from 15 different countries participated. Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Provincial Minister Agriculture and Livestock, Justice Khalil ur Rehman, Chairman Halal Research and Development cell, Hamid Yakoob Shiekh, secretary Livestock and dairy department, Muhammad Zubair Mughal, CEO Halal Research Council, Dr. Tallat Naseer Pasha, Vice Chancellor, UVAS, Dr. Iqrar Ahmad, Vice Chancellor Agriculture University Faisalabad, Ishaq Latuconsina, Indonesian ambassador, Dr. Haja Sittie Shayma Zenaida Laidan, Regional Director Department, Ministry of Science and Technology – Philippine, Kavilash Chawla, Managing Director Nur Global Strategies, Chicago -  U.S.A, Abdul Basit, Chairman Big Bird Group, Mohamad Yakob Bin Munshi Deen, Managing Director Halagel – Malaysia, P. Ahmad, Pak Qatar Takaful, S. Anjum Bashir  Director General – Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC), Nissar Ahmad Ramtoola, President – Jummah Mosque – Mauritius were some  of the prominent and featured personalities at the conference.

The conference was organized by Halal Research Council in collaboration with PAMCO and Livestock & Dairy Development Department Punjab in which research papers on various topics like export of Halal products from Pakistan, promotion of Pakistan’s Halal Industry internationally, International Halal Research & development and Certification, opportunities of promotion in the Global Halal Industry and the potential of Halal Industry in Punjab were presented. In that conference, the MoU was signed amongst Philippine and Mauritius for the sake of promoting the Pakistan Halal products. The main subject of the conference was the proposal from Justice Khalil ur Rehman for the formation of Halal Authority which was unanimously appreciated by all. Other accepted proposals include the Halal awareness Campaign, Research in the field of Halal and Halal Publications.

While addressing, the organizer of the conference, Muhammad Zubair Mughal, Chief Executive Officer, Halal Research Council said that Pakistan has every capability to become Halal Hub in comparison with any other country and the whole world is anticipating Pakistan as a Halal Hub which is becoming reality. He further added that a huge quantity of Halal Food, Halal Meat, Halal Cosmetics, Halal gelatin and Halal bones can be exported from Pakistan through which we can increase our exports hence can cover the trade deficit. In addition to this, he said that Halal Research Council will continue its journey in the field of Research, Development & Innovation and will arrange the international conferences in South Africa, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and UAE in the year 2012. whereas at national level, a road show from Khyber to Karachi would be arranged and 300 seminars on Halal awareness in 100 cities of Pakistan within one month would be conducted.

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Saudi Arabia will hold a Halal Food Control and Exhibition for the first time. International-scale event production will hold in 12-15 February 2012 in Ryadh. A number of researchers as well as the institutions associated halal certification from all over the world are expected to join. Including organisations and enterprises that produces halal products.

As for who will be the subject of where issues are issues related to the vital problems related to lawful including searching for workarounds. Like slaughtering methods, terms and conditions for ensuring the consistency of food export, and automatic machine for slaughtering animals, standardization of halal certification, etc. So later retrieved the halal standards is truly an international reference.

In addition the participants can also be exchanged between countries in the field of supervision and control on halal food. Both of the parties and legislative regulations of different countries around the world and Islamic Nations in particular. Some other advantages are also expected to be open wide, both in partnering as well as in obtaining an agreement.

This event is open to companies that produce diary and non diary, red meat, halal food franchise, bread, chocolate, biscuits, beverages, organic produce, supermarkets, and much more. As for the targeted visitors alone leads to importer, exporter, manufacturers, hotels, restaurants, the Ministry of industry and trade all over the world, as well as halal certification agencies.

Special Conference hold for the first time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a religious responsibility in support of Government’s role in serving Islam and the Muslims around the world.

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By KATHERINA MARIE
educate@thestar.com.my

STEAMED with chilli and garlic, the tilapia fish makes for a delicious meal, but a Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) researcher has discovered that the spiny-finned freshwater fish is a rich source of collagen.

The discovery offers consumers a halal alternative for the important protein, which is traditionally obtained from pigs and cows.

The collagen was discovered by UPM Faculty of Food and Science Technology lecturer and researcher Prof Dr Jamilah Bakar.

She then introduced it to biotech company Bionic Lifesciences, which included the ingredient in its bird’s nest product.

The improved final product was displayed at the Biomalaysia 2011 Conference and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur recently. Bionic Lifesciences director Prof Mohd Saleh Yahya and UPM deputy vice-chancellor (Research and Innovation) Prof Mohd Saleh Jaafar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to seal the collaboration between the company and varsity to commercialise the product.

Prof Mohd Saleh said UPM’s objective for the collaboration is to enhance research and development for the biotechnological processes.

“This collaboration will help to provide technical assistance and knowledge and will be beneficial for UPM students to further their research on collagen,” he said.

Prof Jamilah shared that she had spent 12 years on the research.

“I actually started my research with gelatine which is used in almost all the food products and from there, I discovered that gelatine is obtained from collagen by hydrolysis,” she said.

“Collagen is used widely in the food industry as a food supplement in capsule, beverage and tablet forms.

Students and visitors looking at the raw collagen sample and the range of products it could be used for at the signing ceremony.

“Society is starting to realise the importance of collagen in maintaining skin health, improving immunity, activating muscles and treating joint pain,” she said.

She added that prior to this, collagen had to be imported from China and Korea as there was no local source.

“We are the first in the region to produce halal aquatic collagen.

“The cosmetics industry can use it for its anti-ageing properties and include it into facemasks, hair products, nail products, creams and even directly into beverages because it is halal,” she added.

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President of the Abu Dhabi Business Women Council and chief operating officer of Al Jaber Group Fatima Al Jaber said Islamic finance and halal food were the two mutual areas that Malaysia and UAE could work together.

“Islamic finance is a very important sector that Malaysia is pioneering and I chair an investment bank (in the UAE). We are looking into investment opportunities in Malaysia,” she told Bernama after the UAE – Malaysia Power Ladies Roundtable 2011 here today.

Al Jaber is among ten influential UAE businesswomen who are in Malaysia for the Power Ladies UAE-Malaysia Roundtable 2011 tour. The Power Ladies tour, organised by Inside Investor, runs from December 5-9 and is aimed at providing the UAE guests with a greater understanding of the business opportunities available in Malaysia.

She said UAE offered huge opportunities for Malaysians in many areas included leisure, hotel, sports, property, healthcare and education.

“UAE is a consumer market. The sports and healthcare industry are growing. Education is another area. We have all types of school and universities in the UAE. There is also a great demand for certain types of properties there,” she said.

She also said that financial services were another area Malaysians could tap  as foreigners were currently involved in the business in the Emirates.

“The should be two-way (business ties)…Malaysians should come to UAE and venture into these areas,” she added.

The Power Ladies group also mentioned that three important areas that they would look into before venturing into businesses in Malaysia were government rules regulations, taxation and the business environment.

The group, over the previous two days, met Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation chief executive officer Dr Wong Lai Sum, chief executive officer of the Malaysian Investment Development Authority Datuk Noharuddin Nordin, SME Corp Chief Operating Officer Datuk Hafsah Hashim.

Today, they are scheduled to meet the Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Duli Yang Maha Mulia Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Nur Zahirah. — BERNAMA

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UAE ‘power ladies’ explore bilateral investment ties opportunities with Malaysia

KUCHING: United Arab Emirates (UAE) businesswomen visiting Malaysia paid a courtesy call Malaysian Government Chief Secretary, Tan Sri Sidek Mohd Hassan yesterday to explore opportunities for closer business ties between the two countries to boost bilateral trade and investment.

The visitors, who are here to attend the Power Ladies UAE-Malaysia Roundtable 2011 from December 5 to 9, will be visiting leading officials of the government and corporate sector to discover further opportunities in the country.

Dubai Business Women Council president and Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group managing director, Raja Easa Al Gurg noted in a press release yesterday, “I would like to see the embassies of UAE and Malaysia working closely to synchronise business relations and seek out investment windows for both countries.”

Currently, bilateral trade between UAE and Malaysia is estimated at US$6.4 billion.

Abu Dhabi Business Women Council president and Al Jaber Group chief operating officer, Fatima Obaid Al Jaber urged Malaysia to create more visibility for the country’s investment environment, especially in places such as the UAE where investors are keen to tap into the Malaysian market.

Sidek concurred with the ladies as he highlighted that Malaysia was an ideal investment destination as the government intended to go beyond incentives to lure incoming investment.

“We are also training human resources for the needs of investors with a strong focus on the high-tech and the services industy,” he noted this as a step taken in conjunction with the nation’s vision to be a fully developed country by 2020.

Sidek pointed out various transformation programmes that the government led to enhance competitiveness, such as Pemudah, a special task force set up between the public and private sector to simplify the process of doing business in Malaysia.

The task force had been working on easing licensing and immigration requirements and visas for highly skilled talents and investors.

Other topics that the meeting touched on include the unemployment rate in Malaysia, business registration processes, programmes for small and medium enterprises, special incentives as well as the most promising sectors for investment.

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Speaking at the event, deputy head of the the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Africa – Western Asia – Southern Asia Department Leâ Thaùi Hoøa outlined crude oil, tourism, labour, and science and technology as promising sectors for bilateral co-operation in the future.

Last year, Vieät Nam exported US$1.65 billion worth of goods to the Middle East, mainly seafood, textiles, footwear, iron and steel, electronics, handicrafts, agricultural products, machinery and equipment, surging 45 per cent over the same period of the previous year.

Exports were likely to reach approximately $2.4 billion by the end of the year, up 69 per cent year-on-year.

Despite these encouraging results, Vieät Nam was still faced with several barriers in fostering trade relations with the Middle East, such as cumbersome administrative procedures, political instability and insufficient market information, Hoøa said.

Other experts at the event called on Vietnamese exporters to foster their understanding of the market’s culture, communication and business customs. They were also urged to win Halal certification, necessary if the firms wanted to effectively access the market.

The Halal certification is a global scheme for products and services. It is an independent process to verify halal and haram ingredients and purity conditions required to meet Qur’an and Shariah standards.

Halal (permitted) and Haram (prohibited) are universal Arabic terms applied to all facts of life and commerce. Shariah is defined as a legal framework under Islamic Law.

Vieät Nam now has Halal certification agencies in both Haø Noäi and HCM City.

In a move to help local businesses better understand the respective business customs and market demands before meeting potential partners, the department planned to organise online business meetings between Vietnamese enterprises and firms from six Middle Eastern countries early next year. —VNS

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He said they should also refute the malicious disinformation and spin which were intended to give a wrong picture of Muslims.

“Prejudices, racism and Islamophobia are tangible expressions that do not go away easily.

“So, effective PR is one method to address these problems and reinstate the truth,” he said.

His speech was read by the ministry’s advisor, Datuk Nik Zainiah Nik Abdul Rahman, at the 1st Global Congress for Muslim Public Relations Practitioners here today.

On Malaysia’s role in promoting Islam, Mukhriz said, the nation had played a major part by developing an Islamic financial system and the halal industry.

“The global halal market is valued at US$2.7 trillion annually, fuelled not only because of the huge Muslim market, as non-Muslims now consider halal products more hygienic and reliable,” he said.

On the Islamic financial system, Mukhriz noted that the number of Syariah-compliant loans had begun to rise, indicating the growing demand for such financial tools from among Muslim and non-Muslim clients for Islamic financial products.

“It is no longer strange to see international commercial banks issuing Islamic loans to clients,” he said.

The first-ever global congress for Muslim PR practitioners is jointly held by the International Islamic University Malaysia and Tehran-based Kargozar PR Institute.

The three-day conference focused on paper presentations, dialogues and panelist discussions, comprising more than 200 delegates from Malaysia and neighbouring countries.

The congress was set up to create a platform for discussions among PR professionals on how to be more effective, discussions on current world issues and the important role of Muslim PR practitioners.

BERNAMA

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In a statement Wednesday, chief executive officer Dr Wong Lai Sum, said in formulating its 2012 Work Programme, Matrade had taken into account several key factors, such as, the continuity of programmes under the ETP and the 10MP.

Other factors include the changes in Matrade’s structure to be more industry-centric, the imperative to double manufactured exports by 2015 and other challenges in the domestic economic and global trading environment.

“With these issues factored in, the 2012 Work Programme will focus on key strategic markets, pushing export opportunities for new sources of growth, strengthening the competitiveness of Malaysian exporters, improving service delivery to support export promotion activities and collaboration with private sectors on new vehicles for market access,” she said.

A key component of the 2012 Work Programme will be the execution and delivery of more than 120 trade promotion activities that involves participation in international trade fairs, Specialised Marketing Missions (SMM), promotion booths, In-coming Buying Missions (IBM), joint promotion activities and the organising of three exhibitions.

The exhibitions are the Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS), Malaysia Services Exhibition (MSE) and International Trade Malaysia (INTRADE).

“The industry sectors that will be covered by these trade activities under the 2012 Work Programme will be construction services and building materials, electrical and electronics and ICT, health and environmental products and services, lifestyle, machinery, transportation, logistics and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), oil and gas and chemicals, processed food, biotech and halal as well as professional and business services.

“These trade promotion activities will be carried out in geographical regions according to market segmentation, the statement added.

– BERNAMA

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KUWAIT: The Philippines needs more exposure to a ‘highly competitive Kuwaiti market,’ said Dr Hani M Al-Mazeedi, Associate Research Scientist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). Speaking before the delegation of Filipino business representatives from food sectors, Al-Mazeedi said that the Philippines has a lot more to do when it comes to securing Kuwaiti consumer’s trust when it comes to buying products.

I think the fact that food products from the Philippines were not exposed to Kuwaiti market they need a lot more of ‘convincing power’ to persuade us [Kuwaitis] to buy your food products. An exhibition of this kind will help, but I proposed that a commercial trading facility is necessary. They need to introduce their products and explain the ingredients to consumers,” he added.

He also proposed labeling all their products/ingredients with ‘halal’ as many in Kuwait would prefer to eat/use halal food products under the supervision of Halal Certification Board of the Philippines. The Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) is visiting the country as part of the Middle East roadshow, which will take them to Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

The message of Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Shulan Primavera was read out by Vice Consul Rea Oreta during the event. He said, the event was being held at a unfortunate time when the Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Kuwait was shut down a year of operations.

Short-lived as it was, it helped sustain opportunities to promote the Philippines as a viable investment destination with the entry of Kuwait Gulf Link in Clarkfield Pampanga,” he said. “KGL invested over a billion dollars in developing of global gateway logistics city which could generate of up to 70,000 new jobs,” the envoy added. He said, the Philippines is awaiting promised investments from Alghanim and Alshaya group of companies.

In terms of product availability in Kuwait, Primavera noted that almost all major supermarkets here have already been selling products which captured not just the Filipino market but also the Kuwaiti and other expat groups alike. He revealed that the 2009 CITEM exhibition in Kuwait produces about US $10 million worth of contracts.

That is why we are supporting such exhibitions which are constant variables in our economic work plan, support the proposal to relax documentary procedures for our exporters, reduce the cost of authentication fees for documents and shortens the clearance period for trade samples in addition to relaxing visa requirements for visiting businessmen and exporters to the Philippines,” he stated.

Jojie Dinsay, Commercial Attache for the GCC region, remarked that the food exhibition has offered a very good opportunity for both the delegates and prospective buyers to penetrate Philippines and Kuwaiti markets. According to Dinsay, food accounts for 35 percent of Philippines’ total exports to Kuwait.

Some of our top food exports were tuna [15 percent], fresh bananas [14 percent] canned and fish products [4.5 percent]. Kuwait serves as the gateway to the Iraqi and Saudi Arabia. However, it still has a lot of untapped potential as a market for our world-class food products.” There are 12 companies from the Philippines that participated in a one-day food exhibition event held at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel last Thursday.

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EUROHALAL MARKET, the European Halal Trade Fair exclusively dedicated to professionals from all Halal sectors, became in a few months the International Halal business platform for professionals from all over the world. In this context, the success of 2011 edition was on its way.

However, 2011 turned out to reveal important changes at worldwide level; first with the social, political and the subsequent economic shocks in the Arab world and secondly, with the resonance of the new financial crisis that hit the world economy.

In light of these events, we have noticed the difficulties in participation for many registered exhibitors.

In this respect, we are compelled with regret to postpone the Exhibition to the 26^th, 27^th & 28^th of November 2012.

This decision stems also from our objectives to provide the best quality of exhibition in an environment which strives to be both open-minded and result-oriented in order to guarantee the significant Halal development at worldwide level. Indeed, we believe more than ever in the incredible progression of this dynamic market offering bountiful opportunities.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. We have already started working on the most relevant solutions for the success of your participation at the 2012 edition.

EUROHALAL MARKET TEAM

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1050 Brussels
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Tel :  +32 (0)2 644 37 00
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info@eurohalalmarket.com

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